“Fiery trials make golden Christians”
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“Fiery trials make golden Christians”
“Do you think yourself wise? Then there's a donkey inside your waistcoat”
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”
“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties”
“If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.”
“A man who does nothing never has time to do anything”
“A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.”
“It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head”
“It is not well to make great changes in old age”
“When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name”
“A lie travels round the world, while truth is putting on her boots”
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness ”
“Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space”
“Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength”
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”
“If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem to be against us, we do not believe Him at all”
“You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.”
“Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self”
“By perseverance the snail reached the ark”
“When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it, he keeps a very small stock of it within”